Orofacial pain is a noxious, painful experience in the region of the face and /or oral cavity. According to International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), pain is defined as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual and potential tissue damage”. Chronic pain continues after the expected time of recovery.
Publications
Awards
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) and King’s College London £3,825,000.00 2017
Translational research MRC Grant, ‘Stratifying Chronic Pain Patients By Pathological Mechanism- A Multimodal Investigation Using Functional MRI, Psychometric And Clinical Assessment.’ £2.4M 2017
Grunenthal 2014 and 2016 10K
Awards
- Awarded Honorary Fellowship AAOMS Sept 2017
- Won "José Luis Ferrer Award" from the Spanish Society of Craniomandibular disorders and Orofacial Pain (SEDCYDO)
- 32 international invited key note/ plenary and distinguished lecture invitations over last 3 years
- University Leuven co supervised PhD and Visiting Noel Martin Chair Sydney University
- Sydney University visiting Chair Noel Martin Award 2018-2020
- Distinguished Speaker Invitation Tuttleman Family Foundation and the Temple University Department of Periodontology and Oral Implantology
- Invited Sir Thomas Kay Sidney Visiting Professor, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago 2021
Activities
Innovative clinical service
Professor Renton leads an internationally recognized orofacial pain service. Multi-disciplinary including neurology, clinical psychology, oral medicine, oral surgery Liaison Psychiatry, ENT and neurosurgery at Dental King's College London. Clinical sphenopalatine simulation service KCH Neurology & St Thomas Hospital Orofacial pan and headache service (and other interventional procedures for head and neck pain) collaboration with 2 centres InPut Pain Management St Thomas Hospital (Lead Prof Adnan AL Kaisi) and Neurology KCHFT/KCL Lead Professor Goadsby
Policy
Chair development group Mandibuular Third molar surgery FDS RCS Guidelines 2019 Clinical Reviewer Antimicrobial Stewardship Guidelines for dentistry FDS FGDP collaboration Lead developer of AMS clinical online scenarios training, collaborative work with PHE External Clinical advisor for NHS Obudsman Key learning materials T Renton G Gerrard N Seoudi N Palmer Antimicrobial stewardship 30 CPD online modules for dental teams Link https://www.baos.org.uk/elearning/ Endorsed by NHS England, GDC, BDA, FGDP, BAOS, HEE and PHE.
Impact
- Invited member International Classification of Orofacial Pain (ICOP) a grouping of international specialists from IASP, HIS, ICHD, AAPO, AACP forming the first all encompassing diagnostic criteria for acute and chronic orofacial pain.
- Patient safety work, websites (Trigeminalnerve.org.uk and Orofacialpain.org.uk), LocSSIPs lead, lecturing
- M3M and AMs guideline development
- Invited member National Advisory Board Human factors in Dentistry and GDC dental forum
- Led the development of Oral Surgery as one of two new dental specialties since 2000.
- Changed dental practice in relation to LA, M3M, Endo and Implant risk assessment and surgical practice Impact Case for KCL last REF
Publications
Awards
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) and King’s College London £3,825,000.00 2017
Translational research MRC Grant, ‘Stratifying Chronic Pain Patients By Pathological Mechanism- A Multimodal Investigation Using Functional MRI, Psychometric And Clinical Assessment.’ £2.4M 2017
Grunenthal 2014 and 2016 10K
Awards
- Awarded Honorary Fellowship AAOMS Sept 2017
- Won "José Luis Ferrer Award" from the Spanish Society of Craniomandibular disorders and Orofacial Pain (SEDCYDO)
- 32 international invited key note/ plenary and distinguished lecture invitations over last 3 years
- University Leuven co supervised PhD and Visiting Noel Martin Chair Sydney University
- Sydney University visiting Chair Noel Martin Award 2018-2020
- Distinguished Speaker Invitation Tuttleman Family Foundation and the Temple University Department of Periodontology and Oral Implantology
- Invited Sir Thomas Kay Sidney Visiting Professor, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago 2021
Activities
Innovative clinical service
Professor Renton leads an internationally recognized orofacial pain service. Multi-disciplinary including neurology, clinical psychology, oral medicine, oral surgery Liaison Psychiatry, ENT and neurosurgery at Dental King's College London. Clinical sphenopalatine simulation service KCH Neurology & St Thomas Hospital Orofacial pan and headache service (and other interventional procedures for head and neck pain) collaboration with 2 centres InPut Pain Management St Thomas Hospital (Lead Prof Adnan AL Kaisi) and Neurology KCHFT/KCL Lead Professor Goadsby
Policy
Chair development group Mandibuular Third molar surgery FDS RCS Guidelines 2019 Clinical Reviewer Antimicrobial Stewardship Guidelines for dentistry FDS FGDP collaboration Lead developer of AMS clinical online scenarios training, collaborative work with PHE External Clinical advisor for NHS Obudsman Key learning materials T Renton G Gerrard N Seoudi N Palmer Antimicrobial stewardship 30 CPD online modules for dental teams Link https://www.baos.org.uk/elearning/ Endorsed by NHS England, GDC, BDA, FGDP, BAOS, HEE and PHE.
Impact
- Invited member International Classification of Orofacial Pain (ICOP) a grouping of international specialists from IASP, HIS, ICHD, AAPO, AACP forming the first all encompassing diagnostic criteria for acute and chronic orofacial pain.
- Patient safety work, websites (Trigeminalnerve.org.uk and Orofacialpain.org.uk), LocSSIPs lead, lecturing
- M3M and AMs guideline development
- Invited member National Advisory Board Human factors in Dentistry and GDC dental forum
- Led the development of Oral Surgery as one of two new dental specialties since 2000.
- Changed dental practice in relation to LA, M3M, Endo and Implant risk assessment and surgical practice Impact Case for KCL last REF
Our Partners
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
University College London
University of Oxford
University of Leuven
Medical Research Council
Grunenthal
Group lead
Tara Renton
Professor Oral Surgery
Contact us
Professor Tara Renton
Centre for Oral, Clinical & Translational Sciences
King's College Hospital
Denmark Hill